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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Zig Ziglar is known for saying, “You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.” Leaders who didn’t have that figured out before 2020 have certainly had a crash course—or crashed and burned. At every level of the organization, EI’s pivotal role is to help the leader: Manage self. Manage others. Manage work.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Stew Friedman – Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. World authority on project management. Non-profit CEOs.

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. As the late business guru Peter Drucker said: The sole purpose of business is to serve customers.

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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

This of course begs the question: is this self-inflicted inter-domain complexity a problem? Ironically, we are crummy at dealing with it because of the predominance of narrow knowledge siloes – which are of course the self-same knowledge siloes that created the inter-domain complexity in the first place. Should we be worried about it?

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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Become an Extraordinary Leader

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker was writing about it nearly 50 years ago, and over the last decade it has come back in vogue. One of my weaker areas of leadership has always been finance. Of course, there are times to work on weaknesses when they really get in your way. It's why I still take an occasional finance course.

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